I've chosen not to comment on this story. There's my free will.
Wait, I mean, I'll comment but I'm not leaving an opinion, except for the one that states that I have free will. Hold on. OK. I'm not leaving an opinion as much as statement. Oh, forget it. You're right. I have no free will.
Had it not been a 17-year old used car. The story says the kid was charged with larceny over $5,000. In light of that, I think it's the dealer who should have been charged with a larceny.
I'd buy anything in the same price range and with similar atributes as my current car in order to get off of gas and onto an alternative energy source. I think the time is long past due to flood our scientific community with federal funds in order to create affordable alternatives to gas, which pollutes, is non-renewable and lines pockets of oil barons.
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My favorite part about this pi calculator are the two words at the end.
Corsair's Flash Padlock has the same issue. You can open the case through a single screw in the back of the drive and then access an electronic switch on the board, which can be easily tripped with a piece of wire, giving you access to the memory chip without having to punch in a security PIN. Hardware security methods just aren't as secure as software-based encryption.
And here I thought three-dimensional atomic holographic optical data storage nanotechnology was practically a house-hold term. I'm shocked to hear it's vapourwear, shocked.
A nice theory, but considering we're struggling with how to send a human being to Mars, juggling the number of stars in the MilkyWay - current estimates peg it around 400 billion -- and that one light year = 5,8 trillion miles, and our galaxy is 100,000 light years across, I think it's a bit outrageous to think we can so closely estimate the age of the universe or its shape/expansion rate. I have no problem with guessing based on current scientific models, just so long as that's what they call it -- an educated guess. I'm fond of what Tom Edison said: "We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything."
Personally, I'd rather see our scientific dollars spent closer to home.
Bullets are ineffective and dropping a high voltage electrical wire onto blobs doesn't do anything. In fact, it sets diners on fire. A carbon dioxide fire extinguisher is the best way to stop... oh, wait. You said 'blog'. Sorry.
From the post: "The actual proportion of respondents who reported that someone made sexual overtures and asked to talk on the phone or meet in person -- what the study called an "aggressive sexual solicitation" -- was 3%, and 34% of those requests were known to have been made by adults. And even this overestimates the proportion of minors who were truly "sexually solicited", because all it means is that an adult started out by talking to them sexually, and then made some request for offline contact, which could have merely been asking for a phone number."
So you're making light of an adult "merely" asking a minor for a phone number? While it's fair game to question statistical numbers being touted by politicians and child advocacy groups, like the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, because you're concerned it might affect your ability to freely surf the net, it's irresponsible to paint sexual solicitation of children as no big deal. Personally, I'm more than willing to consider giving up some freedom to protect others.
That's an invention of man, not God or scriptures. Ideological and political struggles are no different than religious struggles, and they're all based on selfish desires. A member of the Westborough Baptist Church once tried to tell me that their rants at funerals of solders killed in action in Iraq were justified because of the scripture in Luke 10:10-12. "But when you enter a town and are not welcomed, go into its streets and say, 'Even the dust of your town that sticks to our feet we wipe off against you. Yet be sure of this: The kingdom of God is near.' I tell you, it will be more bearable on that day for Sodom than for that town." The misinterpretation of the scripture was this: that their job was to go out and judge others. While it may be a Christian's job to warn people against disbelieve and sin, it certainly isn't to tell them that their sons and daughters are in hell and they're about to join them. A number of scriptures, including Matthew 10:14-15, also address how disciples should spread the gospel, and there's nothing in it about judging others. No where in the Bible does it tell Christians to go around condemning other people. In fact, it forbids it: "Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you." (Matthew 7:1-2). So, in reality, when you see Christians behaving badly, it isn't because of their adherence to scripture and Christ's example, but just the opposite.
While I'm not a Muslim, I have looked into this issue out of curiosity and found a few interesting similarities between Judeo-Christian and Muslim religious laws. And, Muslim "outrage", like all legalistic religious outrage, seems quite misguided. There is no verse in the Koran, per se, that forbids images of Mohammad or Allah. In Chapter 42, verse 11, the Koran does say: "[Allah is] the originator of the heavens and the earth... [there is] nothing like a likeness of Him." So the interpretation is that to try to reproduce Allah in whatever form you choose -- and by extension His prophet Mohammad -- is an insult to God. The Koran also states in Chapter 21, verses 52-54 that "[Abraham] said to his father and his people: 'What are these images to whose worship you cleave?' They said: 'We found our fathers worshipping them.' He said: 'Certainly you have been, you and your fathers, in manifest error.'" This verse is probably far more applicable to this modern outrage we're experiencing, and it mirrors the Judeo-Christian law (in the Ten Commandments) that forbid "graven" images of God. The reason behind it is quite simple: Man is prone to worshiping idols, which takes his attention off the creator and places it on the created. Religion is about creating a relationship with God. The first chapter of Romans in the New Testament of the Bible also addresses this. Much like Christian's have tradition, Muslim tradition, or Hadith, points to Muhammad and his companions explicitly prohibiting images of Allah, Muhammad and all other major Christian or Jewish prophets, but it doesn't explain why. So, at least on the surface, Muslims appear to be taking to a legalistic extreme both law and tradition by threatening death to anyone who might break such a law, when, like all Biblical laws, they were created for our own good, not God's. And, perhaps this is the greatest mistake of all that religious zealots make: God doesn't need a defender; He's quite able to defend Himself.
With all of our technology and our superior intelligence community, why would we be so naiive as to think that cutting cables wouldn't be an obvious ploy to disrupt communications among Middle Eastern countries, and so that tactic would only backfire on us? Unless, our intelligence community calculated that everyone would think it was obvious, so that we'd never do it because everyone would immediately know it was us. But then, people would realize that we knew that they knew we'd think it was an obvious ploy and therefore no one would believe we'd done it, so then they would't believe we'd done it, all just to throw them off. But then, people would realize that we knew that they knew that we'd knew they'd knew... forget it. I'm going back to sleep.
the fact is that politicians don't respond to you unless it's in their interest (i.e. votes or notoriety) not the public's interest. That kind of constituent scorning only increases after they're elected. I'm very familiar with politicians in that I was a reporter for mainstream media for seven years before my current job with IT, and I learned the hard way that politicians rarely give anyone the time of day. They're mainly interested in garnering committee appointments for power's sake.
If you allowed a amputees who became superior athletes after their injuries to participate in the olympics and they began winning, everyone would start cutting off their legs.
except Europa. Attempt no... Oh, forget it. Our immigration policy useless -- no border fences, free medical care and education for illegal aliens and now our politicians are talking about amnesty. Go ahead an land.
Vendors continue to make proprietary software and firmware that refuse to work with competing and complimentary vendor products (and that will be forever), so I think it's safe to say IT shops will be around a very long time.
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I've chosen not to comment on this story. There's my free will. Wait, I mean, I'll comment but I'm not leaving an opinion, except for the one that states that I have free will. Hold on. OK. I'm not leaving an opinion as much as statement. Oh, forget it. You're right. I have no free will.
Had it not been a 17-year old used car. The story says the kid was charged with larceny over $5,000. In light of that, I think it's the dealer who should have been charged with a larceny.
getting stuck in an elevator in a NYC skyscraper, imagine a brownout halfway between here and the moon.
Hey, it makes more sense than a bat that flies around in daylight.
I like the name of your beer: Left Hook Lager, but why choose a lager to represent yourself versus, say, a stout?
I'd buy anything in the same price range and with similar atributes as my current car in order to get off of gas and onto an alternative energy source. I think the time is long past due to flood our scientific community with federal funds in order to create affordable alternatives to gas, which pollutes, is non-renewable and lines pockets of oil barons.
My favorite part about this pi calculator are the two words at the end.
Corsair's Flash Padlock has the same issue. You can open the case through a single screw in the back of the drive and then access an electronic switch on the board, which can be easily tripped with a piece of wire, giving you access to the memory chip without having to punch in a security PIN. Hardware security methods just aren't as secure as software-based encryption.
And here I thought three-dimensional atomic holographic optical data storage nanotechnology was practically a house-hold term. I'm shocked to hear it's vapourwear, shocked.
dilithium crystals
Personally, I'd rather see our scientific dollars spent closer to home.
Bullets are ineffective and dropping a high voltage electrical wire onto blobs doesn't do anything. In fact, it sets diners on fire. A carbon dioxide fire extinguisher is the best way to stop ... oh, wait. You said 'blog'. Sorry.
So you're making light of an adult "merely" asking a minor for a phone number? While it's fair game to question statistical numbers being touted by politicians and child advocacy groups, like the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, because you're concerned it might affect your ability to freely surf the net, it's irresponsible to paint sexual solicitation of children as no big deal. Personally, I'm more than willing to consider giving up some freedom to protect others.
That's an invention of man, not God or scriptures. Ideological and political struggles are no different than religious struggles, and they're all based on selfish desires. A member of the Westborough Baptist Church once tried to tell me that their rants at funerals of solders killed in action in Iraq were justified because of the scripture in Luke 10:10-12. "But when you enter a town and are not welcomed, go into its streets and say, 'Even the dust of your town that sticks to our feet we wipe off against you. Yet be sure of this: The kingdom of God is near.' I tell you, it will be more bearable on that day for Sodom than for that town." The misinterpretation of the scripture was this: that their job was to go out and judge others. While it may be a Christian's job to warn people against disbelieve and sin, it certainly isn't to tell them that their sons and daughters are in hell and they're about to join them. A number of scriptures, including Matthew 10:14-15, also address how disciples should spread the gospel, and there's nothing in it about judging others. No where in the Bible does it tell Christians to go around condemning other people. In fact, it forbids it: "Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you." (Matthew 7:1-2). So, in reality, when you see Christians behaving badly, it isn't because of their adherence to scripture and Christ's example, but just the opposite.
While I'm not a Muslim, I have looked into this issue out of curiosity and found a few interesting similarities between Judeo-Christian and Muslim religious laws. And, Muslim "outrage", like all legalistic religious outrage, seems quite misguided. There is no verse in the Koran, per se, that forbids images of Mohammad or Allah. In Chapter 42, verse 11, the Koran does say: "[Allah is] the originator of the heavens and the earth... [there is] nothing like a likeness of Him." So the interpretation is that to try to reproduce Allah in whatever form you choose -- and by extension His prophet Mohammad -- is an insult to God. The Koran also states in Chapter 21, verses 52-54 that "[Abraham] said to his father and his people: 'What are these images to whose worship you cleave?' They said: 'We found our fathers worshipping them.' He said: 'Certainly you have been, you and your fathers, in manifest error.'" This verse is probably far more applicable to this modern outrage we're experiencing, and it mirrors the Judeo-Christian law (in the Ten Commandments) that forbid "graven" images of God. The reason behind it is quite simple: Man is prone to worshiping idols, which takes his attention off the creator and places it on the created. Religion is about creating a relationship with God. The first chapter of Romans in the New Testament of the Bible also addresses this. Much like Christian's have tradition, Muslim tradition, or Hadith, points to Muhammad and his companions explicitly prohibiting images of Allah, Muhammad and all other major Christian or Jewish prophets, but it doesn't explain why. So, at least on the surface, Muslims appear to be taking to a legalistic extreme both law and tradition by threatening death to anyone who might break such a law, when, like all Biblical laws, they were created for our own good, not God's. And, perhaps this is the greatest mistake of all that religious zealots make: God doesn't need a defender; He's quite able to defend Himself.
With all of our technology and our superior intelligence community, why would we be so naiive as to think that cutting cables wouldn't be an obvious ploy to disrupt communications among Middle Eastern countries, and so that tactic would only backfire on us? Unless, our intelligence community calculated that everyone would think it was obvious, so that we'd never do it because everyone would immediately know it was us. But then, people would realize that we knew that they knew we'd think it was an obvious ploy and therefore no one would believe we'd done it, so then they would't believe we'd done it, all just to throw them off. But then, people would realize that we knew that they knew that we'd knew they'd knew... forget it. I'm going back to sleep.
the fact is that politicians don't respond to you unless it's in their interest (i.e. votes or notoriety) not the public's interest. That kind of constituent scorning only increases after they're elected. I'm very familiar with politicians in that I was a reporter for mainstream media for seven years before my current job with IT, and I learned the hard way that politicians rarely give anyone the time of day. They're mainly interested in garnering committee appointments for power's sake.
Jenny Craig. It worked for Pluto.
The tree lives 100 years and then gives a last hurrah with a magnificant burst of flowers and dies. Not a bad way to go at all, eh?
If you allowed a amputees who became superior athletes after their injuries to participate in the olympics and they began winning, everyone would start cutting off their legs.
by just studying a soccer match.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwCZt6jEnJg
except Europa. Attempt no ... Oh, forget it. Our immigration policy useless -- no border fences, free medical care and education for illegal aliens and now our politicians are talking about amnesty. Go ahead an land.
except Europa. Attempt no landing there.
Vendors continue to make proprietary software and firmware that refuse to work with competing and complimentary vendor products (and that will be forever), so I think it's safe to say IT shops will be around a very long time.